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The Department of Veterans Affairs is considering allowing larger businesses to participate in version 2.0 of a contract vehicle for health care system modernization services. Currently, participation in the Integrated Healthcare Transformation vehicle is restricted to service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses. The original IHT is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a potential 10-year performance period. It was […]

The Department of Energy has awarded $16 million in funding to support seven research projects seeking to advance new scientific concepts and developments in materials sciences, atmospheric predictions and other fields using high-performance computing.  Ceren Susut, the Department of Energy’s acting associate director of science for advanced scientific computing research, said the projects may improve […]

Generative artificial intelligence offers plenty of potentials for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but a cautious approach is needed because of the uncertainties in its tools, a USDA official said.  Christopher Alvares, USDA chief data officer, told NextGov/FCW that while generative AI can bring more efficient and more effective USDA programs, the department is weighing […]

CACI International has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to enhance cloud capabilities delivery for U.S. government clients. Under the strategic collaboration agreement, CACI will augment its end-to-end enterprise IT modernization and mission modernization solutions with methodologies it used in its Agile Solution Factory, deliver improved edge capabilities by integrating AWS […]

The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has debuted an enterprise contract writing and management platform to streamline acquisition. Initial deployment of the Army Contract Writing System is limited to 104 contracting personnel at several locations, including Army Contracting Command-Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Feedback will be used to inform the next release. Megan […]

IBM, Accenture and Groundswell are competing for a potential eight-year contract to build a platform that will consolidate five U.S. Army business systems. The companies have received other transaction authority agreements worth $7.5 million to deliver Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence prototypes by May 2024. The prototypes will be hosted in the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Environment. Following […]

Artificial intelligence systems, like any other kind of software system, must be secure by design, according to a recent Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency article. Christine Lai, AI security lead, and Jonathan Spring, senior technical adviser at the agency, say in the article that a product is secure by design when it is built to […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency has launched the OCONUS Region for Stratus, a cloud capability available at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The cloud capability works to deliver additional cloud capabilities outside the contiguous United States. It is part of DISA’s initiative to create infrastructure that will connect ground teams stationed around the world […]

A White House memo published Thursday indicates that the government will focus research and development on artificial intelligence for government services and regulatory tools for such technology. Funding will be directed toward designing and testing the results of new AI approaches. Signed by the heads of the Management and Budget and Science and Technology Policy […]

The leader of the U.S. Army Cyber Command said enterprise cloud environments are not inherently secure. In contrast with experts who say such environments are safer because they enable faster threat responses, ARCYBER Commander Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett stressed that proper design and implementation are paramount for security. She explained at the TechNet Augusta conference […]